Chantelle Marshall

“How could I just turn my back on him like this? But how could I stay? It isn’t the money. It isn’t. I’d gladly give him every cent I have. Because the truth is, I really can put up with the fact that he thought I was fat. And I can put up with the fact that he apparently complained about my fatness to his family. And I can put up with the gambling, and even with the fact that he pretended like he couldn’t come so I would give him a blow job. But defrauding poor people? Because that is basically what someone who takes unemployment while having a paying job is doing. That I cannot tolerate.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

“actually brought man tears to my eyes.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“unyielding loyalty to a man I despise—is that Lidia North is a weak woman. Timid. Milquetoast. She has no metal in her spine, no opinions of her own. I need my friends to be interesting. To have vim and vigor.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil